Virtualization and Linux can be a match made in heaven, which is why enterprise Linux heavyweights Red Hat and Novell are pushing so hard to make support for virtualization a highlight of their respective mainstream Linux operating systems. Also recognizing this potential - but pursuing a markedly different tack toward realizing it - is rPath, a company that offers IT organizations and the ISVs that serve them a clever new means of getting the most out of this technology tandem.
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Member since:2005-08-13
There is Linux software out there that you actually have to pay for.
yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxCommercialApplications.html
& thinking that all these will somehow be replaced by supposedly superior OSS versions is - well - ... inaccurate .
So commercial Linux software can be in a shop.
Maybe ALL software will be available online like (?) it is with all of Macromedia's some time .
Member since:2005-12-02
"There is Linux software out there that you actually have to pay for.
yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxCommercialApplications.html
& thinking that all these will somehow be replaced by supposedly superior OSS versions is - well - ... inaccurate ."
That listing unfortunately is way out of date. A good chunk are dead links, and some that are listed such as Coffee Cup HTML editor, MusicMatch, and a fgew others were discontinued a couple years ago for Linux. Too many people want all the software on Linux to be free as in beer, so companies discontinue products that don't make money. What they should do instead of canceling a product just develop a cross platform product..a shock I know.
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2005-07-06
Linux software isn't distributed via retail, it's distributed online via repositories. That's the nature of the system. Setting "retail penetration of 3rd party software" as a goalpost is arbitrary and misleading. Linux could get double-digit desktop marketshare and never develop a substantial brick-and-morter retail presence of third party software.
It should be noted, also, that Linux itself has achieved substantial retail penetration. These days, you can walk into a CompUSA or Microcenter (and in some places even a Best Buy) and buy a copy of Linux. Once people have the distribution, though, there is really no reason for them to go to a store to get software.